European Heat Pump Summit 2013: meeting-place for international heat pump experts

Ochsner und Nowak schneiden den Energielabel-Kuchen an / Ochsner and Nowak cut the Energylabel Cake

•    Talks between specialists from 26 countries
•    Focus on expertise

The European Heat Pump Summit 2013 – powered by Chillventa turned Nürnberg into Heat Pump City on 15–16 October 2013. More than 250 international congress participants sourced information on current questions concerning the status quo and the future of heat pumps at presentations given by well-known speakers from Germany and abroad.

The key themes of the summit were innovative approaches to technical solutions, possible applications, market analyses and the challenges and opportunities resulting from the political framework like the F-Gas Regulation and the EU Ecodesign Directive. The summit also focused on the components, which played a special role this year. The highlights included the presentations on the IEA Heat Pump Programme, which examined trends and possible future uses of heat pumps in applications such as smart grids. The current figures and information on market development in many European countries, India and Russia rounded off the spectrum of presentation topics.

Many international players
“I am pleased that the event was a success, which once again shows that the heart of the heat pump beats in Nürnberg. Top-class presentations and a highly international audience prove that the orientation of the European Heat Pump Summit attracts a very good response from the experts,” sums up Richard Krowoza, Member of the Management Board of NürnbergMesse. The participants came from 26 countries, including many EU Member States as well as countries like the USA, South Korea, Lithuania and Russia. “Six out of ten participants travelled from abroad,” says Krowoza.

From experts for experts
Dr. Rainer Jakobs, Informationszentrum Wärmepumpen + Kältetechnik IZW (Heat Pump and Refrigeration Information Centre) and coordinator of the European Heat Pump Summit, also sums up favourably: “The European Heat Pump Summit has become an established international platform for information exchange between heat pump professionals. The specialists gained a comprehensive overview of markets, technologies and components. At the European Heat Pump Summit they were able to discuss the key questions on the future of heat pumps on equal terms – the motto ‘from experts for experts’ was again practised in an impressive way.” At the accompanying Foyer Expo, heat pump and component manufacturers presented their current products and new products for interested summit participants.

Efficiency label for heat generating appliances celebrated
To mark the recently effective European Union Directive on the introduction of an energy efficiency label for heat generating appliances, EHPA initiated the symbolic cutting of the “Energy Label Cake” at the evening get-together.” Thomas Nowak, Secretary General of the European Heat Pump Association, commented as follows on the start of the compulsory label to be attached to all heat generating appliances: “The standard marking of energy efficiency is the right step towards more transparency in the market for heat generating appliances. It enables specialists and consumers to easily compare the performance figures of different heating appliances. We hope that the energy label will stimulate growth in the heat pump market.”

Heat pump know-how in Nürnberg and worldwide
The heat pump also plays a special role at Chillventa Rossija, which takes place in the Crocus Expo International Exhibition Center in Moscow from 4–6 February 2014. Heat pumps are covered at ACREX India in the Pragati Maidan Exhibition Centre in New Delhi from 27 February to 1 March 2014. The heat pump specialists meet again in Nürnberg at Chillventa 2014, where heat pumps are one of the top themes again. This gathering of the international refrigeration, air conditioning, ventilation and heat pump community opens in the exhibition halls from 14–16 October 2014 and Chillventa Congressing starts on 13 October 2014. The next European Heat Pump Summit takes place in October 2015.